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The project, started in [[1995]], has over the years become an almost "feature complete" implementation of AmigaOS - with currently (as of March 2006) only a few lacking areas of functionality. This was achieved by the efforts of a small team of developers.

It can currently be installed on most [[IBM PC compatible]]s, and features native graphics drivers for video cards such as the [[GeForce]] range made by [[NVIDIA]]. As of May 2007 USB keyboards and mice are also supported. AROS is also planned to run on [[PowerPC]] boards [[Efika]] and Samantha.

While the OS is still lacking in applications, a few have been ported, including [[Unix Amiga Emulator|E-UAE]], an emulation program that allows 68k-native AmigaOS applications to run in the same way a majority must be run on AmigaOS 4.0. Some AROS-specific applications have also been written. AROS has [[TCP/IP]] networking support, and it is also available an experimental version of [[AMosaic]] web browser, for test purposes, among other [[Internet]]-related applications.